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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Alexander Pope
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Alexander Pope
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
Alexander Pope
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
Alexander Pope
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
Alexander Pope
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Alexander Pope
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Alexander Pope
But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
Alexander Pope
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
Alexander Pope
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Alexander Pope
The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
Alexander Pope
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Alexander Pope
As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander Pope
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Alexander Pope
No more was seen the human form divine.
Alexander Pope